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Originally Posted by Narrow Is The Way
You guys are out of your league on this one. We haven't even got to the New Testament yet.
Anybody done a study yet on 1 Timothy 2:9? You need to get some older dictionaries out and find out what words mean.
Apparel today is a very general term that means "any article of clothing." But in the year 1611 the word "apparel" meant "loose, long flowing garment?" Look it up in an old Oxford English Dictionary that has the archaic meanings of words. The Greek word for Apparel is katastole which is an EXACTING WORD meaning a LONG FLOWING GARMENT, This is the ONLY place in the Bible where it is used. What part of a pair of pants is a long flowing garment.There are lots of words for clothing, attire, etc., but this word comes from a verb form which means "to lower." It denoted a loose-fitting outer garment, which was LONG. You can argue this all day long but a pair of pants is NOT a long FLOWING garment.
I don't care how anybody tries to explain this away, we need to find out what these words meant when they were written, not what is claimed they mean now.
I know we are all guilty of finding meanings using webster, etc. but a serious matter like this requires us to look further into the scripture and get ahold of the spirit in which the scripture is written. |
This was not written by King James nor was it written by Paul during King James day. It was written nearly 2000 years ago when men wore long flowing robes.
You know who did not wear long flowing robes? Romen Centurians. The wore short skirts.
All this shows is that at the time women wore, like men, long flowing robes. What Paul was instructing was not to wear something everyone was already wearing but to wear MODEST long flowing robes
This was their greek word for "clothing"..he was tellng them to dress modestly not "wear a dress". He was telling them to dress modestly
In fact the definition of this word includes the garment of kings
Vines
connected with katastello, "to send or let down, to lower" (kata, "down," stello, "to send"), was primarily a garment let down; hence, "dress, attire," in general (cp. stole, a loose outer garment worn by kings and persons of rank, Eng., "stole"); 1Ti_2:9, "apparel."
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